| Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1859 - 622 pages
...hypcrboloids, or hyperboioids ¡of one nappe. SPHERE. [L. sphara. Gr. opatpa]. Л solid or volume bounded by a surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Or it is a volume that may be generated by revolving a semicircle about its diameter... | |
| Thomas Baker - Measurement - 1859 - 186 pages
...is a round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre.—The sphere maybe conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about... | |
| Daniel Leach, William Draper Swan - Arithmetic - 1861 - 344 pages
...inches ? MENSURATION OF SOLIDS. SECTION XLI. 374. A SPHERE, or globe, is a solid, bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. 376. The diameter, or axis, of a sphere is a straight line passing through the centre... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1863 - 464 pages
...of the cone, along lines which are called elements of contact. 12. A SPHERE is a volume bounded by a surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. A sphere may be generated by a semicircle revolving about its diameter as an axis.... | |
| Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1863 - 350 pages
...and this multiplied by 5 equals 95cu. in. THE SPHERE. X 503. A Sphere is a volume bounded by a curved surface, every point of which, is equally distant from a point within called the centre. 504. The diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre and ending in... | |
| Edward Brooks - 1863 - 344 pages
...and this multiplied If 5 equals 95cu. in. THE SPHERE. 503. A Sphere is a volume bounded by a nurved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. 504. The diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre and ending in... | |
| Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1865 - 174 pages
...is a round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre.—The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about... | |
| Sophia S. Cornell - Geography - 1867 - 424 pages
...the magnitude of the radius. Definition of a Sphere.—A Sphere is a body bounded by one continuous surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point •within called its centre. Any line drawn from the centre to the surface is called a radius. A line passing... | |
| C. Davies - 1867 - 342 pages
...frustum of a pyramid may be inscribed in the frustum of a cone. 7. ASpHEREisa volume bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The distance from the centre to the circumference is called the radius. The diameter... | |
| Philip Thomas Main - Astronomy - 1868 - 224 pages
...to state a few definitions and prove a few propositions relating to the geometry of the sphere. DBF. A sphere is a surface every point of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. It follows at once that every plane section of a sphere through the centre is a... | |
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